The real Glaswegian working class voice in the independence debate read by thousands, the BBC and other related media, secured the first criminal conviction against one of the seven top cybernats outed by the Daily Mail

His attempt using the ill judged ‘flagship’
legislation to remove the centuries old requirement for corroboration in
criminal trials is another reason to vote No in September at the Scottish
independence referendum.

Although he managed to scrap through by 3
votes, the fight against this damaging bill continues.

The SNP had a majority during the Stage One
vote last night which means the proposal remains in the Criminal Justice
(Scotland) Bill.

In effect this means something which is
broken and wrong continues through the Parliament.

People will be denied a fair trial;
accusation without proof is the new standard the SNP want to bring in.

This has all the hallmarks of Germany in
the 1930’s where the fascist Government used the law to pervert the course of
justice.

MacAskill said:

"The corroboration reform must stay in
the bill. Commencement must wait until Lord Bonomy reports, but there must be
no further unnecessary delay. The reform must go forward now in this
legislation."

We need a Justice Minister in the Scottish
Parliament; we haven’t had one since 2007.

SNP Justice Convener Christine Grahame abstained
in the vote because she knows this is wrong.

Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and
Green MSPs all voted in favour of the Tory motion seeking to strike out that
section of the bill.

Clearly the will of Parliament is now
reduced to the will of the SNP.

And that party is just a front for the Alex
Salmond party, a crony ridden clique who are illiberal.

Every SNP member present voted with the
Government, this shows there is a real lack of talent in the SNP, the leadership
selects drones who blindly follow Salmond.

This bill has been railroaded through the Parliament.

As part of his pitch to sell this,
MacAskill is using rape as a vehicle arguing that Rape Crisis Scotland, Scottish
Women's Aid and Victim Support Scotland backed police and prosecutors.

Does anyone think that if someone isn’t a
good story teller that is enough to send them to prison if they are accused?

The supposed shift to an emphasis on
quality of evidence rather than quantity is bogus.

SNP MSP Gil Paterson made an impassioned
plea in favour of abolition.

One of the tactics used by the Nazi Party
of Germany to justify acting in the way it did was to use people described as ‘victims’,
then using that, they acted, because they said an injustice had occurred .

It seems that not a lot has changed in the
political mindset of some people in politics.

Alison McInnes, of the LibDems, and Patrick
Harvie, of the Greens made strong, principled speeches on why the case had not
been made for jettisoning a key issue of civil liberties.

Elaine Murray, summing up for Labour,
insisted Labour had "no desire to give the Scottish Government a
kicking" but was acting because this aspect of the legislation was flawed.

Then MacAskill made a sweeping attack on
Labour and the LibDems for backing a Conservative motion on this, likening this
alliance to the parties in the Better Together campaign.

I am right to call for his removal as
Justice Minister which I have done so for quite some time?Yes!

Pretty much on the money there!

The SNP say they are an independent party,
that isn’t true as we see from their current indy bid, they also claim they are
a party for justice, that isn’t true either.

It is time to get rid of them, people extended
them goodwill and they spat in the faces of the very people who helped them get
into power.

He says that people living south of the
border should not be given a formal say on whether Scotland enters a currency
union with the rest of the UK.

And also just to highlight that ordinary
Scots are held in equal contempt, Scots don’t get a say on whether we remain
want EU membership.

Salmond says he is rejecting any suggestions
that a second referendum should be held on sharing sterling.

He said:

"A referendum would not be required;
it should be a negotiating position between the rest of the UK and the Scottish
Government after a Yes vote."

I think there would be a lot of Tory,
Labour and Lib Dem MPs who might consider otherwise on that point.

Salmond added:

"The task we have is to explain the
benefits of the sterling zone, not just to the people of Scotland, where polls
indicate very, very strong support, but also to the people of the rest of the
United Kingdom."

It is a tail wagging the dog scenario which
incidentally will not happen, the support for Scottish independence has completely
collapse.

Alex Salmond and unpopular Nicola Sturgeon
are just going through the motions in order to hoodwink their own supporters
into keep working for them; it’s very much a busted flush.

To home in on that fact, you only have to
watch the Scotland Tonight debate between Sturgeon and the Scottish Labour
leader Johann Lamont.

Sturgeon was doing her angry wee Nat routine
and even political commentators such as Bernard Ponsonby branded the debate a
farce!

The angry wee Nat came across as very much
the provincial Irvine Bam!

Presumably she thought coming across as an ‘arsehole’
which incidentally women of Govan told me several times during the Govan by-election
plays well.

Was this ‘fighting for Scotland’?

No, it was just a loud mouth arsehole ranting
and foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog.

To return to the ‘jolly fat man’, he says
on currency:

"Our position is share and share alike”.

A poll published four days ago suggests 54%
of people in Britain think the rest of the UK should not share the pound with
an independent Scotland.

And with a Gneral election in 2015, no one
is going to be changing their minds in the unionist camp, not if they are
considering being the UK Government post 2015.

Salmond then said that if no currency
union, then Scotland or to be more accurate the SNP Government would refuse a
fair share of UK debt.

This means that Scotland would not have any
military assets to defend the country in the event it is attacked.

Community councillors trapped in MSPs jobs
that they are so unsuited to.

A Better Together spokesman said:

"Alex Salmond has a bad habit of
telling people in the rest of the UK what's in their best interests without
going to the bother of asking them. Recent polls have shown overwhelming
opposition to a currency union if Scotland left the UK. There is a clear
pattern emerging here. On one side you have the three UK parties saying a
currency union won't happen and people in the rest of the UK supporting that.
On the other side you have Alex Salmond saying they are all wrong and only he
is right. It simply isn't credible”.

He added:

"Now that we know a currency union is
off the table, Alex Salmond has to tell us what his Plan B is. Would we rush to
adopt the euro or set up an unproven separate currency? Or would we use the
pound in the way that Panama uses the dollar, with no control over interest
rates or the financial back up of a lender of last resort if things go wrong?
This would be a disaster for Scotland, as expert after expert has pointed
out."

After the debacle of the Scotland Tonight
debate, it clearly shows that the Nationalists are in meltdown and have decided
to try and hang on to their core support which is deserting them as people realise
that the SNP is just a joke.

It is for Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon
to do a U turn on currency, they have already done so on many issues, why
should currency be different.

One thing that is clear, when it comes, it
will probably be done after they get ‘advice’ from someone that way they will
try to deflect from their failures as leaders.

But let’s get it straight, the entire
failure of this campaign rests on Salmond and Sturgeon’s shoulders.

Is it anything like ‘we are all in this together’ which the
Tories used?

Turns out that ‘we
aren’t all in this together’ as the number of people using food banks continues
to climb.

Grant Shapps, the Tory Chairman, yesterday used a speech to
activists in London to seek to grab the blue-collar vote.

His test comes at the European elections this spring.

He and the rest of the Conservatives are being pressed by
Nigel Farage and UKIP, who did well in a recent by-election pushing them into 3rd
place.

And of course there is the General Election in 2015 which is
wide open, Labour hasn’t found a narrative to put them in the driving seat and
the Tories are in an argument among themselves to whether they should be more
right wing.

In fact they should be more left wing and do away with the
bedroom tax and other anti social measures.

Shapps said:

"We are the party on the side of the whole nation. We
are the party on the side of working people. Our politics isn't about a list of
statistics or numbers. There's a moral purpose to it; a mission."

I would say to him.... food banks!

And we should also remember that five Old Etonians are
writing the party’s 2015 general election manifesto.

Doesn’t look good as the “workers’ party’ suggests, looks like
a scam. Mr Shapps used the example of Sir John, who rose to the highest office
from humble beginnings, as a "symbol of our party".

Just because a few “poor” people make it doesn’t really cut
it.

And Shapps also said that the Tories were "not here to
defend privilege; we are here to spread it".

Check out the Cabinet for poor people!

The party chairman also unveiled a John Prescott-style
pledge card.

Copying others, not exactly mind blowing.

The Conservatives are worried by the rise of UKIP so in that
respect they say that they plan to reduce immigration to try and undermine
their support in party.

I suspect a lot of Tory MPs are looking over their shoulders
about possible re-election chances.

Grant Shapps also revealed the Tories were launching a “John
Major apprenticeship programme” as part of its plans to widen the support base.

The first two placements on the scheme are the son of a Tory
mayor and Parliamentary candidate and an intern working for a Conservative MP.

I think that this scheme will die a death in the eyes of the
public, you just can’t take this ‘workers party’ idea serious when it comes
under the microscope.

Do you object to me describing myself as "The real
Glaswegian working class voice" in the independence debate?

If so why?

Who would fit the criteria better?

I am a popular Glaswegian blogger, working class, and keep
getting it right on Scottish independence.

How about Scotland's
unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon?

She is common, that I grant you, but without the 'common
touch', a real problem for her as she is finding out during this independence
campaign.

Defeat after defeat followed by impending defeat.

17% for independence in the North and North East, the
supposed SNP heartland of Alex Salmond.

Total and utter collapse of support, how do you explain that
one?

You still haven't answered the question why aren't you saving
the Scottish independence campaign for the SNP?

No idea I take it where to start?

Well you would have to fight on two fronts, Unionist and
Salmondism, one is kicking your ass and the other has its head up its own ass
with its own self importance, which incidentally isn't much cop.

But to return to some of your points:

"So "The real Glaswegian working class voice"
would rather have tuition fees and prescription charges imposed by a
Westminster Government".

I never said that, and if you stick around you might find if
tuition fees introduced by the Scottish Parliament and also prescription
charges at some point.

Does the fact the SNP trotted a few bribes impress you since
it is done to get votes?

And less we forget, at top universities the working class
isn't there to reflect the make up of society by a long chalk.

What did the Salmond and Sturgeon do to fix this?

Not an awful lot.

"and sneers at the Scottish Cabinet meeting in a church
hall, rather than being hosted by a global oil company".

I am pointing out that the supposed 'popularity' isn't as
widespread as the SNP would have you believe.

Is that wrong?

Does telling the truth upset you when I say it?

Surely if you don't like reading my blog, then simply don't
come back, there you are solutions to problems, it is fairly straight forward
for me.

The reason they are meeting in a church hall is because they
are trying to sell independence and this is their 'meet the people' routine.
That is just as meaningless as meeting in a church hall to decide government
issues.

Who are they trying to impress, holding Q&A sessions
when you can't get the answers to questions you ask.

It is probably padded out
with SNP activists to make up the numbers ..... the clique.

Incidentally as you know they don't give a shit about the
people, just their votes.

If you are buying into their con, well good luck to you, who
am I to stop you living in ignorance or the 'dream'.

Have you read the story about the Bellegrove doss house in
the papers, the SNP keep talking about social justice problems, why have they
sat on their arse since 2007?

If only they had the levers of power, .... they would still
do fuck all.

Do you see what happens when the SNP cuts Glasgow City
Council's budget?

Do you see what happens when Glasgow SNP sits on its arse?

The last leader was a Sturgeon crony devoid of original
thought and the new one does it as a part time job.

Tell me in your unqualified opinion who is the people's
champion of Glasgow SNP?

Give me a laugh!

Prior to 2012, the council election, the SNP engaged in
doing fuck all, and that extended to some of their councillors not being very active,
to the extent of not doing a single day for their branches.

"Yours for Scotland".

"Have you ever held down a full-time job, George?"

If the answer is yes, does that mean I have your approval to
comment on independence?

If the answer is no, does that mean you don't approve?

Which is it?

I am not giving out any personal details other than what I
have listed in the public domain.

"Or are you, as I suspect, a man of independent means?"

Hamish, you aren't a detective, and given you can't seem to
get the hang of being Sherlock Holmes, give up while the going is good.

You must be terribly upset by the last few weeks which saw
the rubbish spouted by Salmond completely torn apart and shown to be utterly
incompetent. Is this sinking in yet, Salmond and Sturgeon are out of their
depth.

Not creative enough.

Time for a quote:

"My problem is that I have too many talented people and
not enough cabinet positions".

Meeting in a church hall to do a 'cabinet of the people'
act, a bit lame when Salmond parks his arse in 5 star hotels.

Did you ever get around to wondering about that £50,000 of
taxpayers' money that Salmond isn't prepared to state what it was specifically
spent on?

Some hero of the people, do you accept lower middle class as
"The real Glaswegian working class voice" in the independence debate?

There is a guy in Pollok SNP who pisses his trousers, IQ of
a handball, could he give Nicola stiff competition as a champion of the people?

Finally, I taught at GlasgowUniversity,
you will be happy to know that I was considered brilliant and no one ever raised a
question about my abilities as a fitness instructor.

In fact I was so good that the gym staff asked my trainees
for advice regularly.

It is news almost so bad that Scotland’s ‘jolly
fat man’ Alex Salmond would wonder how the hell he got into this mess.

Two-thirds of voters in the north and north
east of Scotland want the country to remain in the UK.

Oh shit!

Awhile ago, Alex Salmond said:

“My problem is that I have too many
talented people and not enough Cabinet positions”.

That is another one of his delusions.

Law and order, health and education, the
big three, are all a shambles.

In the recent poll conducted by the Press
and Journal newspaper which incidentally have dropped by this very blog on occasion,
they have dropped a bombshell on the Nats.

Only a miserable 17% of people agree that
Scotland should be an independent country.

I guess Salmond will have to downgrade his “too
many talented people” gag!

65% of Scots want to remain part of the UK.

The bad news just keeps on coming!

This has been caused because the Alex
Salmond Party within the Scottish National Party has failed to put together an
A Team.

Then there are the lies, doesn’t help
matters, the bad law, the laziness, the lack of vision etc etc.

As the ‘face of independence’, Scotland’s
unpopular Deputy First Minster Nicola Sturgeon is supposed to be increasing the
vote, she is also supposed to be reaching out to the undecided to win all them
over.

Sturgeon can’t win the men’s vote and she
can’t win the women’s vote either and the youth vote comes back as a resounding
No!

As in No, No, No!

18% of voters were undecided.

So what does it say that people in
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Inverness and the Highlands and Islands, the
SNP heartlands under Alex Salmond are rejecting independence?

I would suggest they know more about
Salmond’s lack of abilities than most.

The good news /bad news scenario was
published as both the UK and Scottish Cabinets were meeting in the north east
of Scotland.

And more bad for unpopular Nicola Sturgeon,
80% of people surveyed said their voting intentions had not changed in the last
six months

So, nothing that Sturgeon does have made any
difference, not even using the infamous ‘angry wee Nat’ routine.

North East MSP and director of the pro-UK
Better Together campaign Richard Baker claimed:

"This poll will be a huge source of
embarrassment to the nationalists on the day their Cabinet is meeting in an
area they would consider to be their heartland”.

He added:

"It should come as no surprise to
anyone to see these results. People understand the massive impact going it
alone would have on our vital oil and gas industry."

I guess, it is time to start working for
Alex Salmond to start on that resignation speech, obviously he will want to hit
the ground running when the massive No vote comes in as Better Together win a
landslide victory.

No A Team; No independence!

Time for a quote from as far back as the ‘Declaration
of Cineworld’ by George Laird:

“Rather than 'The A Team' it
looked more like 'The GAY Team' in nature”

It can’t have escaped your notice that Alex
Salmond and his SNP Cabinet have effectively abandoned ship to chase the
independence dream.

Currently that has turned into a nightmare.

As part of that process, people who should
be helped have been left in the lurch.

So, what’s Plan B?

No plan B to get someone to do his job?

Salmond is looking for an unpaid intern for
his constituency office.

A previous employee of Salmond was Alex
McLeod who was caught doing election fraud.

Salmond wants a student to work for free on
constituency casework.

So, you could ask why is he not willing to
do the job he is paid for, why lump it on to someone else?

Independence.

The voluntary post advertised through
Aberdeen University careers service, so this raises the question, was it
advertised so that older people could apply?

If not does mean Alex Salmond practices
discrimination?

Or if he didn’t do it does his staff
practice discrimination?

The Scottish National Party has form on not
being inclusive regarding offering opportunities.

Some time ago I took Humza Yousaf to task
on why a post was only advertised for young people in the SNP.

His answer wasn’t good enough.

You may have also noticed that Alex Salmond
likes to surround himself for the cameras with young people around.

This is to try and appear that he has a
connection with the youth of today.

The reality is that the youth of today are
rejecting him as indyref debate after debate at schools and universities comes
back with a resounding No vote.

Alex Salmond is married to a woman old
enough to be his mother, how dynamic and happening is that?

Anyway, the move to get cheap labour has
been rightly condemned by political opponents and campaigners.

In an embarrassment for Salmond, the
pressure group Intern Aware reported the advert to the taxman.

Hooray.

They have requested an inquiry into whether
the role should pay the minimum wage.

It should and also travel expenses should
be paid.

Intern Aware campaigns against
"exploitative, exclusive and unfair" unpaid internships, they are
doing a good job.

Under UK employment law, an intern would
have to be paid if he or she is classed as a worker rather than a volunteer by
the taxman.

In this case, given the person is doing
caseworker; I would say they are clearly an employee and as such should be
paid.

Chris Hares of Intern Aware said:

"Unpaid internships exclude the vast
majority of young people who can't afford to work for free”.

That generally means working class kids.

Hares added:

"Senior politicians like Alex Salmond,
who talk a good game on social mobility and young people, should know better
than to ignore these principles in their own office. As well as being unfair,
unpaid internships are often illegal. We will be reporting this advert for
investigation by HMRC's Minimum Wage enforcement team."

Labour MSP Kez Dugdale said:

"We face a real challenge in ensuring
we have equality of opportunity for young people trying to make their way in
the world and I strongly believe unpaid internships undermine that because they
give an advantage to people from well-off backgrounds."

Sir Malcolm Bruce, the deputy leader of the
Lib Dems, said:

"If someone is doing the job of a paid
worker then they need to be paid."

He added:

"It is hugely disappointing that the
First Minister has failed to lead by example in his own constituency
office."

What is hugely disappointing?

Alex Salmond is a rat; his party is run as
a rat ship under his leadership, people just need to know exactly what he is.

An SNP spokesman said:

"We've simply responded to a request
from Aberdeen University to provide a short-term flexible internship to one of
their full-time students - to assist them with their course. No-one has been
appointed, or even interviewed, and therefore there has been no discussion on
expenses or hours for the internship."

If that was the case, then why was it
advertised?

If this was to “help” one of their
full-time students as stated with their course; then why the advert at the
careers service in the first place?

Where else was the ad placed?

Was it placed at the local job centre?

If not, why not?

Was it placed on any job vacancy sites?

If so which ones?

I think we can assume given passed Scottish
National Party history that this vacancy probably wasn’t inclusively advertised to the widest possible audience.

The SNP isn’t a party of fairness, equality
and social justice, if so Salmond wouldn't allow discrimination.

You will no doubt have heard the phrase,
'wake up and smell the coffee'.

Well, Scotland's 'jolly fat man' Alex
Salmond has been told to “wake up” to the economic damage his independence plan
is causing Scotland.

Just recently Salmond threatened to not pay Scotland's
fair share of the UK debt if it became independent.

The reason cited was that the Scottish
National Party wants access to a Sterling zone which puts the rest of the UK at
risk.

If a banking problem occurs in an
independent Scotland, then the logic is that England would bail Scotland out,
even if it was the fault of Scottish Government policies.

In other words a blank cheque!

So, how does that sound to you?

Also, the SNP would be able to continue its
historic campaign of grudge, grievance and malcontent especially when election
draws near, 'it’s all Westminster's fault but the SNP are standing up for Scotland'.

Maybe it is because of the rather serious
lack of talent that makes the leadership of the Alex Salmond party within the
SNP view all Scots as dumb bastards incapable of independent thought.

Let's get something straight before we go
further, the Scottish National Party isn't offering or wanting independence, it
wants interdependence.

You may have also heard of 'white flight',
well in Scotland it seems after Salmond ran his mouth off that Scotland maybe
in the start of the grip of 'white collar flight'.

Companies are starting to think about
transferring the Headquarters to England.

Salmond's fault, let's be clear on
that point.

The TSB is said to be considering shifting
its tax base to England and why shouldn't they, will the SNP
threatening default who wants to be leave in lurch by people who are so
untrustworthy?

Not me!

Opposition parties said the shift was “very
bad news for Scotland”.

It is and it also could have a knock on
effect for future investment, at least until the SNP are defeated at the ballot
box in September when a landslide No vote comes home to roost.

The TSB bank was founded in Scotland and
previously domiciled for tax purposes, however they blamed Salmond's “bluff and
bluster” strategy as reason for a rethink.

Also in line to speak out is Standard Life
poised to warn that Scottish independence poses a risk to its business north of
the Border.

At this point it is worth mentioning the
SNP don't do radical thinking or consider other people’s problems in their bid
to hold power, it's all stupid petty games.

Standard Life based in Edinburgh is
a financial services giant, which six million customers and nearly £240bn of
assets under their control.

Iain Gray, Scottish Labour’s finance
spokesman, said the TSB move “is very bad news indeed for Scotland; and a
wake-up call for the SNP.”

He added:

“For months now Alex Salmond has simply
refused to listen to any suggestion that his referendum is creating uncertainty
in the Scottish economy, or that important businesses fear the consequences of
separation. Now we have a major player in the Scottish financial sector, which employs
95,000, choosing to register in England rather than Scotland,
where it has always been based.”

Then Iain Gray said that Salmond should do
is disclose his Plan B for the currency.

Plan B is entry into the Euro, all the talk
about the Sterling zone is in my opinion a smokescreen.

I always believed that Sterling was
a temporary measure to meet the criteria for a future European membership and
acceptance of the Euro currency to access the European Central Bank.

It makes not a jot the damage that would be
done to Scotland in the process.

Gavin Brown, the Scottish Tory finance
spokesman, added:

“This move also means we have to watch very
closely if other major businesses make similar decisions.”

Well, that looks likely from this side of
the fence, as much as Better Together raise the questions to the lack of
detail, it is the lack of vision and planning that will concern investors,
especially since there isn't any on anything, it's all made up on the hoof as
sound bytes.

And that isn't how to win an independence
vote.

To return a familair theme which I have
harked on about for some considerable time, ..... planning.

Planning is the bedrock of a successful
foundation, it must include the truth, sadly the sham that this Yes Campaign
has become also shows I was entirely correct regarding the genuine lack of
talent in the Scottish National Party.

No A team!

But it does let Nationalists know that
George Laird was right again.

The TSB is in the process of floating stock
in order to attract investors, but because of uncertainty people would have too
many issues which they could have to consider due to the rag tag nature and
impact of this independence bid.

Trust is an issue for investors, something
else I highlighted time and time through-out this debate.

Standard Life has concerns relate to its
pensions business, which could lose UK tax exemption rights if Scotland votes
for independence in September.

Isn't such a company with assets of nearly
£240bn of assets worth being analysed and considered as part of the White
Paper, I was expecting a library of Congress style production, all that was
produced was a 670 page election manifesto for the Scottish National Party.

Talk about not know what you are doing!

And this isn't the only sector which is
'indy lite'; it spreads through the entire structure of Scotland and
it businesses and sectors.

Analysts fear that the business could be
severely harmed without the UK tax exemption, and there is concern a
separate Scotland could struggle to afford to have the exemption.

This is because Scotland for its
size has a relatively large financial sector.

A TSB spokesman said the bank’s tax
domicile is moving from Scotland to England but added:

“Establishing new companies as part of a
listing or IPO process is standard practice.”

A gloss on abandoning ship, how terribly
nice and none boating rocking after the tsunami which this will undoubtedly
cause.

A Scottish government spokesman said:

“We welcome the fact that TSB Bank plc is
registered as a Scottish bank, retaining its traditional Scottish roots.”

In others words, can't put a positive spin
on this blunder caused by Salmond so let's stick with meaningless pap to disguise
the fact that the SNP is so utterly incapable.

I have in the past given Glasgow City
Council run by the Labour Party a bit of flak, and probably will in future if I
think it is called for.

That being said, Glasgow City Council is
right to pulling funding for its electoral registration youth engagement
officer because of the political opinions of the post's holder!

Although Union leaders and reform groups
have condemned the axing of a post encouraging teenagers to vote in the
referendum, the person Liam O'Hare is not suited to the post.

If you hold a post such as this you can’t
say 'F*** the cops' after you are appointed to the position.

A city council spokeswoman said:

"It is simply not appropriate for
someone who is employed to engage with young people to say 'F*** the cops' on a
publicly accessible forum and made after his appointment with Bite the Ballot. We
would not accept this from our own employees and will not accept this from a
consultant."

He is the person who caused his own
downfall.

It is a bit like standing for elected
public office, when you get in you have to moderate your language.

That’s the deal.

O’hare interestingly is part of a London-based
organisation called ‘Bite the Ballot’.

Maybe he should have bit the bullet on his
swearing.

So, do union leaders and reform groups have
a case, in this instance, no, they don’t.

The referendum needs to be above reproach
as do people playing an active role in whatever capacity.

Saying ‘f*ck the Police’ isn’t a political
opinion.

Details of Liam O'Hare's comments on social
media sites were published last week.

He also took the time to include branding the
Tories as "scum" and taking part in a an infamous demonstration
against Ukip last year which was splattered all over the papers.

On Facebook page, O’hare’s was reported to
have included comments about the Union flag as "that blood-stained
imperialist flag".

When the storm broke, Glasgow City Council moved
rather quickly to distance themselves from O'Hare.

I find the open letter signed by Unite's
Scottish secretary Pat Rafferty, NUS Scotland president Gordon Maloney and
Willie Sullivan, director of the Electoral Reform Society Scotland to be odd as
they accused the council of discrimination.

They added:

"With the Scottish independence
referendum approaching, and particularly with 16 and 17-year-olds being
eligible to vote for the first time, it is essential that young people are
provided with the correct information on the voting procedure. The Youth
Engagement Officer was set to visit every school in Glasgow over the coming
months as well as engaging with universities, colleges and youth groups. The
fact that funding has been pulled due to a political campaign by a tabloid
newspaper is frankly unacceptable”.

Actually, it was a news story and in the
public interest, no one forced O’Hare once appointed to continue his diatribe
against people he disliked.

He did that all by himself.

They also said:

"In a democratic society, everyone has
a right to hold personal political opinions and unless there is evidence that
these have affected the integrity of their work then action should not be
taken. This simply amounts to discrimination."

Since when is saying, “f*ck the Police” a
political view?

O’hare is a Yes campaigner and connected to
Radical independence, although that doesn’t disqualify him from the post of Youth
Engagement Officer, his views after taking up the post do.

You must be now absolutely sick of being
lied to by the SNP leadership of Alex Salmond and his unpopular Deputy Nicola
Sturgeon.

In politics, there are times when
politicians get it wrong, no one is perfect, it happens, however when getting it
wrong turns into outright deception repeatedly, it is time to fold your tents.

So, before I continue, here is something at
Nicola Sturgeon said December 2007.

Nicola Sturgeon:

"It is the clear view of the Scottish
National Party and the Government that Scotland would automatically be a
member of the European Union upon independence.
There is legal opinion to back that up. I don't think the legal opinion
is in any doubt".

Irene Oldfather:

"The minister said that Scotland
would automatically be a member of the European Union?"

Nicola Sturgeon:

"Indeed I did".

Irene Oldfather:

"You would not require to
renegotiate?"

Nicola Sturgeon:

"No"!

We know now that the supposed 'legal
advice' never existed heralded by Alex Salmond never existed and the SNP was
prepared to use taxpayers' money to defend this information reaching the
public.

Trust is still important in politics.

And add to that preparation as well, there
has been no prep for independence, the SNP didn't do the required work needed
in Government and local government reform. Too late now to start, the bid was
all based on populism, but Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon aren't that popular
as they would have you believe.

Alex Salmond recently came out and said if
the Westminster Government didn't agree a currency union than they would renege
of Scotland's share of the UK national
debt.

It was a threat.

A stupid petty mindless threat which has
blown up in the face of the SNP now, another ‘strategic move’ which wasn’t
strategic and executed by buffoons.

Sterling is not an asset that Scotland is entitled to if it was
ever to become independent.

It is a UK currency.

After the SNP committed to this stupid
remark, the ripples of it are coming back now to haunt them.

Homeowners in Scotland could face average annual
mortgage increases of almost £5,200 under independence.

This transpires if the Scottish Government
walks away from its share of national debt'

Alex Salmond and unpopular Nicola Sturgeon
just put the homes of every Scots in jeopardy at some stage if they won, but
they won't win. Scots have turned against them, business has turned against them
and they have few allies to count on.

So, when Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Danny Alexander said any threats by Scotland's First Minister Alex
Salmond to refuse to take a share of the debt as a result of the UK
Government's rejection of a currency union could have a "huge effect on
mortgages and businesses".

He has had someone do the number crunching.

Conservative Chancellor George Osborne has
already stated that if a new Scottish state accepted its share of UK debt, it
would still have to pay an ''independence premium'' to borrow from the markets.

This would mean an extra £1,700 a year for
the average mortgage-payer.

You might have read my continual assertion
on the importance of reforms to government, as being essential.

Somewhere down the line cash liquidity
would be needed to ensure that a carry over period didn't leave Scotland
vulnerable.

Salmond didn't bother to do the work; it
was enough that a daft smile and a 'jolly fat man' routine would win the day in
his eyes.

Stuffed now!

Alexander told a Holyrood committee:

"In the event of a default, of a
refusal to accept debt, one bank, Jeffries investment bank, has done the only
detailed estimate out there - they have suggested that under those
circumstances there would be a premium of more like five percentage points in
that default scenario."

Alexander added:

"If you run that through the
calculator in terms of how that gets passed on to the real economy... it would
have a huge effect on mortgages and businesses. Assuming a 75% pass through from
bond rates to mortgage rates would be an extra cost of about £5,200 on an
average mortgage cost in Scotland.
None of these things are certain, but you see the range of financial risks that
come with borrowing under an independence framework."

Alexander also said:

"The idea that you would start your
life as a new nation state like that would be cutting off your nose to spite
your face. The expectation within the markets is that part of the proper
process of independence is taking on a fair share of the debt, and in the end
market credibility and confidence is based on the perception that a country is
willing to take on its financial obligations."

In layman terms, you opine that adds up to ‘fucked
all roads’!

Unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola
Sturgeon later dismissed Alexander's claims that mortgage costs would rise in
an independent Scotland.

She told the committee there was "not
a scrap of evidence that would be the case".

You will think that someone who exercises
such poor judgment would first check that out before trotting it before anyone
and his brother.

Sturgeon added:

"There are examples of other small
European countries that have lower mortgage costs than people in Scotland as part of the UK right now."

Are they part of the UK?

No, so this is not applicable to this
scenario, and they didn't threaten to fuck over anyone over debt repayment.

Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney whose
reputation has been effectively trashed by the incompetence of the independence
campaign said independence White Paper had set out for UK debt to be shared if there is a
Yes vote in the referendum.

He added:

"Under the proposition we have put
forward, an independent Scotland
would be quite happy to pay, as part of negotiated arrangements which would
include participation in a sterling zone."

A Sterling zone is going to happen, that is
certain now, all the three main parties are committed to a unity pact to refuse
Scotland
a currency union.

Swinney told MSPs:

"If the UK Government wishes to have
its cake, it cannot eat it as well."

He added:

"If one's position is to take all of
the assets, one's position must be to take all of the liabilities."

Sterling isn't an asset; this has been
explained to the SNP.

Finally, his parting shot:

"The Treasury has accepted all the
debt will be legally theirs because of Westminster's
argument that the rest of the UK
will be the continuing state - so by definition it is impossible to default on
a debt that is not legally yours."

Westminster had to guarantee the debt
because of Salmond's stupidity, somewhere down the line post defeat, he will
seriously regret being so gobby, because he used up goodwill without thinking
matters to their logical conclusion.

And that could have a knock on effect of
any additional powers as well to Holyrood.